Jeff Barr Experiments With Self Scheduling
Jeff Barr of Amazon writes about a trip he’s planning where people he does not know can schedule him for meetings, dinners and such at places they select.
Fascinating idea. He presents himself as a resource with certain constraints (geographic and time). People hassle the details and make tradeoffs, then he selects what he’ll do.
It helps that he is a technology evangelist from Amazon. But I could see doing something similar for a trip where you might wish to meet up with various friends and family.
Jeff mentions a couple of services that deserve your consideration:
As they put it:
Find something cool to do, tell your friends, organize an activity together, find out what your friends are up to tonight!
I logged into Planypus and was presented with Santa Barbara events and restaurants. I have no idea how they knew my location. It has to be some magic derived from the ISP I am using?
Very cool stuff.
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